Greg Garrett: Trumpet, Flugelhorn

Greg Garrett performs in many different stylistic worlds. Greg is a graduate of University of Michigan where he studied with Armando Ghitalla and Ramone Parcells.

His playing career started out in the Ann Arbor Brass Quintet and continued to the A2 Bee-Bop Quintet with Pianist David Swaim. He relocated to the Northeastern Ohio Area in the mid 80’s and started playing in Motown, blues bands and big bands such as The Motion, King Kong, and the Cleveland Jazz Orchestra.

After hooking up in 1989 with Dick Johnston and the Artie Shaw Orchestra based out of Boston, MA., he relocated back to Portland, Oregon. Currently, he can be heard playing with Patrick Lamb, the Chuck Isreals Octet, Pete Petersen Septet, the Ellen Whyte Band w/The 4-Eyed Horns, Columbia Brass Quintet, and The Shanghai Woolies amongst others.